Cursor Tab is doing too much

[seanbow (sean)]

I’ve gone back to windsurf for now unfortunately because cursor’s tab suggestions are so erratic and chaotic

[diogenes (James)]

Feature request is here, but nothing seems to be done about it. Going back to VSCode/Windsurf.

Suggestions delay

Hello everyone. It’d be great if we could set a delay for auto-suggestions, something between 0 and 2 seconds. Too often, I see myself being distracted by suggestions while I am typing (!!) because they show up too often and too fast. That causes distraction and often annoying shifting of the code. And I also guess that’s a waste of resources on your part for suggestions that will never be used. Please add a “suggestion delay” value setting we can use to avoid all of the above. Thanks!

[jokellum]

I need 2 things:

• N second cooldown like OP farthur up said
• Absolutely a line limit for the tab complete. 90% of the time I only want 1 line work of completion. I’m constantly fighting it and deleting its code.

Atm I have tab disabled 80% of the time recently because I’m writing bindings that must be 100% correct, and just would like something to help auto complete the next line, so I can look over and approve it. I don’t want to be constantly proofreading 5-10 lines of code thats usually wrong or fighting with it to stop deleting my comments.

[ACGpp (shouzhong)]

I found a solution, just change it to ‘tab tab’ . Only twice tab will accept cursor tab suggestion.Wish it’s helpful for you.

[ACGpp (shouzhong)]

try use ‘tab tab’ instead of ‘tab’

[vsMdulcio]

Update: Since the original posting below this, I’ve found the option I needed, so for anyone else who needs this. This option is already available, it’s just not configured by default.

So here is what I did, and hopefully this will help someone else out too:

1. Open keyboard shorts
2. Search for Cursor Tab.
3. Bind the Toggle Cursor Tab action to something. For example, I did cmd+C when editorTextFocus && !editorHasSelection

That was pretty much the behavior I wanted. There are some other Cursor Tab options I didn’t explore, but you might find to be helpful to you.

(Original Posting ) Apologies to the Cursor Team for the gripe below

To the Cursor Team:

I imagine if you build a feature, you want people to use it. I mean, don’t you want people to use this as much as possible?

Heck! This awesome feature is what sold Cursor in the first place, so I imagine feedback there would be still valuable even if it’s not the only thing you guys have going on now.

So, if the Cursor Team cares for input on the behavior there, here’s an idea.

Please provide an option for someone who wants to have Tab, but find it really distracting when unasked, so much so that they end up turning it off most of the time like pretty much everyone seems to doing atm.

The idea is to

1. Run whatever you’re doing for Tab in the background.
2. Provide a shortcut to show/hide the Tab suggestions (like Cmd + i or something)

Yes, do keep the current behavior, but at least provide an option to switch the behavior.

Thanks , y’all.